Webcasts

Join top security experts as they look at some of the latest security challenges and provide strategies for defense, including how to quickly implement a solution that provides the protection you need without impacting your network performance or reducing employee productivity. You will learn how to better protect your networks from the inside as well as the outside, with solutions that reduce work for IT and security teams. You will also learn about the malware menace, best and easiest practices for securing end points, and how SonicWALL and KACE work together to make your job of protecting your network and your endpoints easer.

In this series of podcasts, hosted by Ben Schreiner of Dell KACE, you will learn what Ben has found to be the biggest challenges IT teams face trying to effectively deploy smart systems management.  Ben shares his experience as a former IT executive in the banking industry as well as his learning’s from talking to IT teams in all industries around the globe.  Ben interviews a customer who shares his “before and after” systems management story and talks to a noted executive coach who specializes in helping IT managers and executives learn how to improve their strategic leadership skills. 

Building and maintaining gold master images for system deployment is time consuming and tedious. Consider the time savings if all of your systems arrived direct from the factory, pre-imaged and ready to go, with no additional effort from you. Discover how the powerful combination of Dell KACE K2000 Appliance deployment functionality and Dell Configuration Services can help.

While Apple products were rare in the workplace a few years ago, that reality has changed. Today, Apple products like Macs, iPhones, and iPads are widely accepted on the enterprise computing scene. Join us to learn about best practices for supporting Apple devices in your organization as first class citizens alongside their Windows counterparts.

iPads and mobile devices have skyrocketed in use on campus - but now IT Professionals in K-12 and Higher Ed are faced with new challenges involving mobile device management. In this webinar we look at best practices and how two Kace customers have implemented successful strategies to manage, control and secure ipads and tablets on campus.

According to Gartner research, Custom Support Standard pricing can range from $600,000 to $5 million for the first year, and will cause tangible budget issues for many organizations. Learn how Native Imaging Tools and application packaging and virtualization tools can help you simplify your OS migration and get you off of XP quickly.

Meet the newest member the Dell KACE Family of Systems Management Appliances: the K3000 Mobile Management Appliance. The K3000 offers effective and intuitive management solutions for iOS and Android-based mobile devices, either stand alone or as a simple extension of existing KACE laptop, desktop and server management with the K1000 Management Appliance.

Managing and deploying applications across heterogeneous platforms and diverse users can be daunting. With increasingly complex software licensing structures and the rising trend of consumerization, IT pros like you are looking to virtualization to eliminate the complexities and incompatibilities associated with effective application management. Now, Dell KACE Systems Management Appliances support Microsoft® App-V technology, enabling you to efficiently administer applications as centrally maintained services, saving time, money and installation headaches.

If you’re responsible for managing data protection on servers, systems and applications, this is the webinar for you.  You will learn how to streamline your data protection processes and help ensure business continuity through backup and recovery of your growing universe of data. We’ll be talking about the challenges you face and show you how our joint customers have met these challenges more easily with tools that allow you to provide data protection with greater speed and efficiency.

According to Forrester, 62% of firms take between 6 and 18 months to test and remediate apps for Windows 7.Among the most challenging aspects of repackaging is to develop an understanding of what files and registry entries should and should not be included. Join Bob Kelly, founder of AppDeploy and ITNinja, for an hour long technical deep dive in application packaging.

CIO's and aspiring CIO's will benefit from viewing this webinar that focuses on the increasing challenges that face today's CIO's. You will hear the latest statistics on CIO tenure, top analyst opinions on why this is happening, and information to help you stay in the CIO chair, based on discussions with many CIO's who are KACE customers. You will also learn how to move into the CIO chair and hold onto the job with expert advice from Ann Spoor, CEO of Executive Lattice.

New OS releases and devices seem to hit the market daily and are rapidly changing IT environments and increasing the risk of security breaches. Learn how to gain control over the ever evolving OS environment and ensure that your endpoints remain identified, secured and well-managed.

Join analyst Steve Brasen of Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) for a lively hour long discussion and side-by-side functional and fiscal comparison of systems management solution suites from four of the leading vendors.

If you're responsible for managing information security or system endpoints for your organization, you're no doubt facing increased security challenges and IT management demands. Attacks against networks and systems are evolving at a relentless pace, and end user systems and devices are proliferating. Learn more about the threats that can impact your organization, and how Dell SecureWorks and Dell KACE have helped safeguard thousands of financial institutions.

Do you often find it challenging to provide satisfactory IT support service to your users? Manual processes and decentralized staff make addressing and resolving incidents, especially for remote systems, even more difficult. Now there’s an organization-wide solution that delivers the comprehensive service desk capabilities of the Dell KACE Systems Management Appliance, integrated with Bomgar’s advanced remote support platform.

The twin challenges facing Business IT departments, namely those of managing and securing client devices, continue to grow as increasing numbers of more capable and more mobile devices are deployed. How to ensure all devices are configured, patched and maintained according to corporate policies, how to repair broken systems remotely, how to secure devices and data in an environment where “it walks out of the door every day” are challenges which most IT departments face.

Though many organizations have a lifecycle process in place, many organizations still falter at these first stages of the asset lifecycle – requisition, procurement and deployment. Join Dell KACE and a KACE customer to hear how they were able to reduce IT Labor costs by 40%, reduce service desk costs by 60% and cut your time to deploy their new systems with the KACE appliances.

IT organizations face the challenge of supporting employees who are constantly on the go that work remotely either out of their homes or wirelessly connect from wherever they are like airports, coffee-shops etc. When such wirelessly connected remote systems crash or get blue-screened an IT engineer has to be physically present to diagnose the issue and recover the system. Not anymore! Join us to learn how Dell KACE offers enhanced remote management capabilities through vPro support to help IT administrators remotely control and recover Intel-based systems.

Dell KACE Appliances and Dell Data Protection|Encryption operating together, can reduce both the risk of a breach and the cost of meeting HIPAA compliance requirements while at the same time improving your organization's ability to provide better services to both healthcare professionals and patients alike. Find out more through this informative webcast.

In a recent survey of IT managers, only 16% felt their organization was adequately secured. Are you among the other 84%? If so, there is a solution that can increase your confidence and help put key aspects of security under control. Learn how Dell KACE and Dell Data Protection|Encryption (DDP|E) to reduce the risk of a data breach and meet regulatory compliance requirements using an integrated systems management solution. Ensuring configurations are enforced, patches deployed and data is fully encrypted, your organization can be protected from accidental or malicious attacks. Discover how Dell KACE Systems Management Appliances and DDP|E together can make your life easier with comprehensive systems management, stronger end point security and full data encryption.

Learn how deploying with Dell Configuration Services and managing with Dell KACE Appliances will help achieve a better solution for managing your end-user computing resources - eliminating repetitive tasks, reducing your PC deployment costs and freeing your time for more strategic IT initiatives.

For many organisations the migration to Windows 7 will be in full swing in 2012. That means now's the time to learn what tools and best practices are available to ensure your migration is simple for your IT department to roll out, while limiting disruption to end user productivity.

Join systems management expert Dell KACE for a pragmatic look at how the right combination of readiness assessment, implementation and roll-out tasks can deliver the benefits of the new operating system to your organisation in a way that is both swift and successful.

How do you ensure your managed systems maintain their standard operating environment (SOE) and stay safe with today’s sophisticated threats on the loose? It’s time-consuming to troubleshoot and re-image workstations and it wastes precious resources. Frequent configuration changes and the installation of unauthorized applications cause system degradation, malware attraction and hampers system performance. Maintaining the standard operating environment across all workstations is never-ending challenge, especially when managing remote systems.

According to Gartner their clients virtualize about 40% of their server workloads, a figure that will double to around 80% by 2015 to 2016. Organizations need to prepare now by looking at their virtualization plans through a long term lens. Listen to Dell KACE and VMware experts explain how to improve or setup your virtual infrastructure the right way and with the right tools.

Mobile computing plays a significant role in the delivery of today’s digital curriculum. Providing accessible computers that maximize the student learning experience, while ensuring they are secure and up to date, challenge K-12 IT administrators with increasingly complex systems management tasks. Learn how Dell Latitude, Dell KACE and Datamation Systems, provider of classroom PC security platforms, can provide a comprehensive, simplified computer management response.

According to a recent survey 51% of KACE customers use their KACE Appliances to manage servers. Dell KACE now works with Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME) to extend system management to servers to offer an end-to-end solution across all data center assets. A key benefit of the integration is the ability to initiate service desk tickets for critical server events thereby offering server monitoring capabilities that are key to maintaining a healthy IT infrastructure. Join KACE and OME experts to learn how the KACE integration with OME can help your organization

Although online communities have become well known resources for delivering solutions to today's information-overloaded IT pro they still have room to improve. Now there's a new community created for IT professionals that brings it all together in a single place: ITNinja.com. ITNinja.com expands on the popular AppDeploy.com community. Join Bob Kelly, founder of ITNinja and AppDeploy, and sponsor Dell KACE for the results of a recent survey articulating how and why online communities deliver value, and to see a live demonstration of the ways ITNinja can help get your job done more effectively and get you home on time.

IT people at educational institutions today face huge challenges trying to do more with less. The Dell KACE systems management appliances make it easy for them to track and manage PCs and software, uncover immediate cost savings, deploy new systems and support students, faculty and staff in a manner that they did not believe possible. Watch an IT team in the Education field as they explain how they tackled their systems management pain head-on and learn how you can get the extra help you need without the headcount.

According to a recent study, while data breaches increased in the last two years, organizations that were PCI Compliant had significantly fewer breaches than those that were not. Dell KACE and Dell SecureWorks together help organizations achieve and maintain PCI Compliance by offering products, solutions and services that help them get started and also guide them along the journey to PCI Compliance. Join experts from both organizations to learn how we can make PCI compliance and customer data protection more obtainable and affordable.

As both network performance monitoring and systems management challenges continue to multiply, increase in complexity and consume more time, many IT professionals may be tempted to throw in the towel. But now there’s a fast and easy way to get into the ring. Hear from experts SolarWinds and Dell KACE who have integrated their products to make both tasks easier, delivering a solution that includes both award-winning network monitoring technology and a comprehensive approach to systems management. This tag team approach can help systems administrators more quickly respond to network problems through a straightforward service desk interface, resulting in faster problem resolution, reduced user downtime and lower IT labor costs.

Gartner, Inc. predicts that more than 50% of organizations that do not start deploying Windows 7 by early 2012 will not complete their deployments before Windows XP support ends, and will incur increased support costs. And for the projected 80% of users who skipped Vista, the road from XP to Windows 7 isn’t going to easy. Add to that tight purse strings and delayed PC refresh cycles, and the reality is that organizations simply need to get more from their existing assets. Clearly the time to start a Windows 7 migration is now! Still, there’s no time to evaluate, implement and learn complex, costly tools to do so.

It can be an IT manager’s biggest headache ̶ managing a growing number of remote client systems needed by critical knowledge workers. And when a system fails to restart, a site visit often times is the only option for recovery. Now, with the powerful combination of Intel’s latest vPro technology and Dell KACE Appliances, IT managers can enjoy remote systems management and recovery that is both effective and economical. Watch this informative webcast and see how vPro technology teams with KACE Appliances to dramatically cut the time and resources needed to manage distributed environments.

Building and maintaining gold master images for systems deployment is time consuming and tedious, requiring manual methods for system setup, application installation and customization. The Dell KACE K2000 Deployment Appliance has always excelled at streamlining this process, and now that task has gotten even easier - consider the time savings if all of your new Dell systems arrived direct from the factory, pre-imaged and ready to go! Join us for this live Web event and see how factory direct master imaging coupled with the K2000 can eliminate the manual Deployment process.

Systems management makes up 75% of IT lifecycle management costs and yet it remains difficult to tame due to a constantly evolving IT technology landscape with the arrival of multiple devices, increasing security threats and emerging paradigms (mobile, cloud, virtualization, consumerization, etc.) Join experts at Dell KACE to learn about the functional areas you’ll want to consider when selecting an appropriate solution, regardless of the size of your organization. You will also hear about our new product line, the K Series Advanced, specifically designed for mid-sized organizations. Dell KACE offers multiple appliances to help organizations of all sizes effectively manage endpoints. Find out which appliance will best meet your IT systems management needs.

Want to learn what your peers are doing—or not—to manage the proliferation of personal devices in the workplace? Watch this webcast with Dimensional Research and Dell KACE, and you'll be among the first to learn what over 740 IT managers had to say about this topic in a recent eye opening survey.

Payment card fraud cost $86B last year in the US alone. The retailer Point of Sale (POS) is the most vulnerable area for cyber-thieves to break in and steal card information. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) was created to protect retail organizations and their customers from payment card theft. Organizations that are not PCI Compliant stand to lose card processing privileges and face hefty fines. Systems management support is a critical piece to the PCI Compliance problem. Join us to learn how Dell KACE systems management appliances help companies quickly gain PCI compliance by providing critical tools and capabilities, such as automated patching, software distribution (even remote) and industry-leading reporting.

If you’re like many IT administrators at smaller organizations, you’re stuck managing your hardware and software inventory using spreadsheets or other manual methods. And while the job’s got to get done, it means you’re spending long hours on tedious record keeping. Ready to put a stop to all that? Then this webcast is for you.

For Federal IT professionals, software license compliance has been an ongoing dilemma – purchase too many licenses and dollars are squandered on unused seats. Buy too few and risk the potential for audits, litigation and fines. Still, some agencies are without a comprehensive and easy way to track purchased licenses against actual software usage, and the “best guess” approach has become the de facto method for measuring compliance. Now there’s a better way. In one short hour, you’ll learn how to mitigate license compliance concerns while also saving time and money through a centralized, appliance-based approach to managing your software environment.

Embracing a digital curriculum means embracing digital content in many different ways, shapes, and forms. To support a media-rich learning environment, schools need an efficient way to manage educational systems and the materials they contain. The goal: ensure reliable and secure access to digital content from any device— without adding IT staff or overburdening data center resources. In this webcast you’ll learn how the right IT management tools can ease the transition to digital curriculum through heightening IT efficiencies, including centralized management of a mix of digital content, personalized devices, operating systems and applications.

The service desk is the face of IT and hence the performance of the service desk impacts the reputation of the entire IT organization. As per top technology analysts ITIL is the number one criteria in a service desk purchase. Is that really true? What are the hottest trends in Service Desk? Dell KACE and Dimensional Research have recently completed a new study on top Service Desk trends like integration, ITIL and ease of use. Find out about what customers are really looking for in a service desk solution.

As security threats increase and hackers become more shrewd, organizations of all sizes must implement a security approach that includes protection from a storm of possible threats. And while an effective patching strategy might appear the first line of defense in building endpoint security, the complexity and scope of the task has often undermined its success. Join systems management experts from Dell KACE and leading IT security vendor Lumension for this informative live web event, focused exclusively on effective patch management.

For IT professionals, software license compliance has been an ongoing dilemma- purchase too many licenses, and dollars are wasted on unused seats. Buy too few, and risk the potential for audits, litigation and fines. Still, without a comprehensive and straightforward way to track purchased licenses against actual software usage, the “best guess” approach has become the de facto method for measuring compliance. Join us to find out about new ways to effectively create a culture of software license compliance.

Along with Windows 7, Office 2010 is among the most common - and daunting - deployment tasks that organizations will face in 2011. So why not benefit from the pros? Join AppDeploy.com and ITNinja.com founder, author and application deployment expert Bob Kelly for a discussion on how to best streamline this challenging undertaking. This is not a product oriented session, but rather an educational event designed to be beneficial to every IT professional who plans to deploy Office 2010, regardless of the desktop management system in use.

Every IT manager knows effectively deploying, maintaining and securing desktops, laptops and servers is a critical if oftentimes tedious task. But how do you address these systems management challenges in a comprehensive way, without missing any key solution components or crucial purchase considerations? Join experts Dell KACE for a back to basics systems management event that outlines both the functional areas you’ll want to consider when selecting an appropriate solution and equips you with some of the less obvious boxes you’ll want to check during your evaluation process.

With security threats becoming more numerous and sophisticated, organizations of all sizes need to take steps beyond traditional anti-malware and patch management to protect their networks. Two methods for doing so include the standardization of endpoint configurations to reduce the attack surface, and securing today’s most popular attack vector, the Internet browser. Find out how the latest release of the Dell KACE K1000 Management Appliance supports FDCC to enforce security compliance across their networks and secure browsing with a free tool.

For most organizations the migration to Windows 7 will be in full swing in 2011. That means now’s the time to learn what tools and best practices are available to ensure your migration is simplified for your IT department, while limiting disruption to end user productivity. Join systems management expert Dell KACE and a knowledgeable customer for a pragmatic look at how the right combination of readiness assessment, implementation and roll-out tasks can deliver the benefits of the new operating system to your organization in a way that is both swift ? and successful. Want the inside scoop and actually see a demonstration of how to get to Windows 7 more quickly and easily? If so, then join us for this event. In one short hour you’ll understand how to plan and execute a faster, more efficient Windows 7 upgrade using tools from Dell KACE.

If the technology pundits are correct, an Office 2010 upgrade and Windows 7 migration are topping the list of IT initiatives in 2011. But what’s really going on? And how does your organization stack up? Dell KACE and Dimensional Research have recently completed a new study regarding these important issues. Find out how migration efforts are progressing with your peers, and what new technologies they plan to embrace. You’ll also see how to effectively manage these upgrades across a complex mix of applications and operating systems, including recommended best practices in how to approach your migration.

With Windows 7 migrations in full swing, many organizations are also re-evaluating their PC lockdown strategies to increase configuration controls. Too often, this is accomplished by unilaterally rescinding administrative rights for most users. And while a goal of enhanced network protection may be met, the backlash in end user dissatisfaction and the added volume of support calls these policies create can outweigh their intended benefits. Join systems management experts from Dell KACE and two customers, TechSoup Global and Ingenuit, for an informative web event focused exclusively on creating effective PC lockdown strategies.

As the origin of new threats shifts towards application-related attacks, none is possibly as ubiquitous, or as susceptible, as the Internet browser. Today there are innovative new tools that address browser vulnerabilities beyond basic detection and remediation. Join systems management experts Dell KACE for this on-demand Web event where you’ll learn of a powerful, free tool that can help you leverage application virtualization technology to dramatically improve browser security and control.

IT professionals are increasingly challenged to provide day-to-day management and support to an ever-growing number of computers and systems. This Webcast covers the current industry trends and tools to help you save both time and money.

Virtual Strategy Magazine speaks with Rob Meinhardt, President of Dell KACE, about the newly released Dell KACE Secure Browser.

Whether the motivation is a reduced carbon footprint, or to save money by powering off idle computers (or both), organizations everywhere are looking to power management capabilities to help curtail wasted energy and control energy costs. But what are some of the considerations that need to be made before selecting a power management solution, and what tangible business benefits can it provide? Join us for an educational hour geared specifically for IT administrators who are seeking to implement PC power management, but have yet to realize an effective means of doing so.

Streamlining and optimizing the management of a school or agency’s IT systems can lead to dramatic time savings while saving the organization money. Hear how an innovative appliance-based approach to systems management catapults the productivity of organizations like yours, especially for those managing 500 to 10,000 computers across a network.

Migrating your desktop environment is a recurring chore that must be done every time a new version of Windows appears. Front and center for organizations of all sizes today is Microsoft Windows 7. In this Webcast you will learn how the new, easy-to-use Dell KACE appliances can ensure a speedy migration and curb excessive costs when you make the move to Windows 7.

If the technology and industry pundits are correct, IT organizations around the world are fired up for a Windows 7 migration, with many not even waiting for SP1. Are you ready? Want to know what your peers are doing and how you stack up? Want to see a demonstration of ways to get to Windows 7 more quickly and easily? View this on-demand web event and learn how KACE tools can help make your migration a success.

Patching clients effectively and reliably is becoming a non-stop process for most organizations, demanding a robust, dynamic and automated infrastructure to ensure delivery. In this webinar, experts Paul Henry from leading IT security vendor Lumension and Ken Ross from KACE and will demonstrate how a broad, reliable and easy-to-use implementation of patching can quickly and cost-effectively secure your organization.

Application Virtualization is a breakthrough technology that eliminates a number of issues that inherently make application deployment so complex. Are the days of the Windows Installer-based deployments numbered? Microsoft has already removed Windows Installer as a logo requirement for Windows 7. How will these changes affect administrators focused on application deployment and desktop management today? In this live web event, Bob Kelly, founder of AppDeploy.com and ITNinja.com, will address these questions and more regarding the uses and benefits of application virtualization.

With the Windows 7 release now a reality, the question for many organizations is no longer whether to migrate, but how. But what compatibility challenges accompany this new operating system? What tools are available to help? Industry expert Nelson Ruest and systems management appliance provider KACE provide the necessary steps to make the Windows 7 migration a smooth and painless process.

Join this KACE webcast to learn how Portland Community College has improved productivity within their Dell infrastructure using the KACE Systems Management appliance. When you register you will also receive a FactPoint Group analyst whitepaper titled Systems Management in Education: A Best Practice Guide. Read how your peers are meeting these challenges and discover the Top 20 Best Practices for IT Professionals in Education.

Join Diane Hagglund of King Research to learn what you need to know to get in compliance with your software licensing agreements. Next, learn how Portland Community College automates software license compliance in a vast and complex setting. The webinar also features a real time demonstration showing first hand how to use system management tools to streamline and automate license compliance in your organization.